La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CXXIX-1107

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section CXXIX-1107 - Benchmark 3-Geography

A. Adult learners demonstrate the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places and environments.

1. Define and demonstrate knowledge of directions in their local community and state, as well as, on a world map and globe.

2. Draw simple maps to give directions.

3. Recite address including:

a. city;

b. state;

c. zip code;

d. parish; and

e. country.

4. Recognize that maps and globes represent different views of the world.

5. Describe and define natural features such as:

a. landforms;

b. bodies of water;

c. mountains;

d. deserts; and

e. natural resources.

6. Locate positions on a map or globe.

7. Interpret and use a map key.

8. Describe the characteristics of maps.

9. Interpret maps, charts, graphs and other geographic information.

10. Define and use longitude and latitude to locate positions on a map or globe.

11. Recognize and locate specific land masses and bodies of water.

12. Describe how people depend on the physical environment and its natural resources to satisfy basic needs.

13. Describe how people can conserve their natural and man-made resources.

14. Describe the purposes of, and differences among, maps, and how maps are both similar to and different from globes and aerial photographs.

15. Describe the cause and effect of selected migrations and world history, as well as, their family's migration history.

16. Describe how people have depended on the physical environment and its natural resources to satisfy their needs and how these needs have an impact on the natural environment.

17. Explain and interpret basic geo-political, population and cultural geography maps, charts, graphs and tables.

18. Describe natural and demographic characteristics of places and use this knowledge to define how regions relate to one another and undergo change.

19. Explain how geographic factors affect human activities.

20. Interpret thematic maps that depict various aspects of the United States and its world trade products, trade routes, and cross-cultural interactions.

21. Identify economic, political, and social patterns that have emerged over the last 50 years.

22. Use geographic knowledge to explain the past, interpret the present, and to anticipate future issues.

23. Explain policies and programs for resource management, including the relationship between environmental quality and economic growth.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CXXIX-1107

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 32:2043 (November 2006).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6(A)(10).